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El conjunto de textos conocidos como "Hermetica", adscritos a la sabiduría de Hermes Trismegisto ha propiciado la aparición de una serie de motivos literarios vinculados, principalmente, al género de la fantasía. El objeto de este trabajo... more
The article analyses and interprets "Watchmen" by Moore, Gibbons and Higgins in comparison with its movie adaptation directed by Zack Snyder. The hypothesis is that there is an observed phenomenon metaphorically called "half-life of... more
Using the concept of metalepsis, taken from literary narratology and transferred to the comic medium, this article analyzes how Alan Moore and J. H. Williams III create in Promethea a comic that explicitly seeks to expand beyond the... more
My introdution for a Special Edition of the journal Alluvium on Contemporary Speculative Fiction which I guest edited.
I include the contents list with links to the work of the individual contributors.
I include the contents list with links to the work of the individual contributors.
This paper is an annotated edition of a four-part poetry sequence written and performed by comics author Alan Moore on the subject of William Blake. Annotations are accompanied by an introductory essay, "A Tyger on the Lam", placing... more
In contemporary popular culture, we see a growing number of both antiheroic characters and dystopias in which society as we know it has ceased to exist. Antiheroes are not necessarily placed in dystopian narratives, but the combination of... more
The paper analyzes the opposition between fiction and reality in Umberto Ecoʼs novel The Prague Cemetery. The purpose is to underline the ways in which works of fiction can be used to build tools of deception and propaganda and influence... more
Two characters in Watchmen appropriate God-like spaces but do so with unsatisfactory consequences. Dr Manhattan is the only conventional superhero in the text in that he possesses scientific/supernatural powers. At the end of the text, he... more
Focusing on how Joseph Merrick, also known as ‘The Elephant Man’, is depicted in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s comic From Hell, this contribution follows a twofold approach. First, it shows how From Hell makes use of the medium-specific... more
It is common for neo-Victorian works to both adapt and subvert the genre conventions of Victorian literature. As this article shows, this can also extend to the respective visual constructions that are inherent to these genres. In the... more
O que é o marco de 1989 para nós? A queda do muro de Berlim consagrou a vitória da democracia ocidental ou um mundo pós-burguês e pós-proletário, ou seja, dominado pela tecnocracia e pelo alto capital financeiro, onde qualquer ideia de... more
This article investigates the use of repeating panels in relation to speculative fiction storytelling in graphic novels Watchmen and From Hell, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and Eddie Campbell, respectively.... more
A proposta do projeto de pesquisa aqui apresentada surge com base na teoria da Análise de Discurso (AD) de vertente francesa, proposta por Michel Pêcheux, com o intuito de possibilitar uma compreensão acerca do funcionamento do Discurso... more
Każda rewolucja ma swoją twarz, a jedną z najbardziej znanych jest wizerunek argentyńskiego rewolucjonisty Ernesto Che Guevary. Przez lata był on twarzą rewolucji i idolem pokoleń młodych buntowników, którym bliskie były marzenia o... more
The British comic book market is one of the most developed in Europe. In the 1980s British artists took over the American market. Their works, just like counterculture comics of the 60s, touched on socio-political issues. The authors were... more
Desde la perspectiva transdisciplinar de los Estudios Visuales, los postulados artísticos de Andrei Tarkovski y Alan Moore se expondrá la posibilidad de investigación de análisis del discurso que presentan los cómics y novelas gráficas,... more
Video presentation, available in 'Figshare' at the link (where you will also find the abstract). Thank you to UAL for hosting, and to IGNCC 2020 team and all participants for giving me an audience to talk about this.
Blake’s two sides of evil—as revolution or as repression—are present in Alan Moore’s From Hell. There are two fundamental distinctions between them: although Moore uses similar criteria to judge inequalities, the magical dimension of his... more
New developments in comics studies have begun to consider the superhero comic as a transnational, rather than American, phenomenon. This approach offers a new way of thinking about the typical story that Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight... more
Updated outline for my cultural studies course exploring the development of contemporary British culture from the 1980s to the 2000s through its long 1990s.
In: Sleep Around More: Art, Research and the Production of New Knowledge p 66-74
One of three books that deeply influenced generations of comics writers and readers in 1986, together with Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is as close to a... more
Análsis de los textos que se incluyen en Watchmen y cómo sirven para caracterizar al personaje del superhéroe y mostrar la fragilidad que oculta su máscara.
Brief details of conference papers on a variety of writers and topics in contemporary literary studies which were produced as thematic or theoretical extensions of the research underpinning my PhD thesis 'Radical Fantasy: A Study of Left... more
Publication Name: "Kryptohistorie. Ukryte i utajone narracje w historii", red. R. Borysławski, A. Bemben, J. Jajszczok i J., Katowice 2014
A survey and analysis of experimental forms in 1990s fiction spanning Literary postmodernism, post-New Wave SF and Fantasy, and other texts informed by twentieth century avant-gardes.
Presentation for the Literary Studies Research School in Utrecht, 2011.
It is not surprising, given the predominantly supernatural themes of superhero comics writing, that magic is not only a strong theme within the texts but also the lives of those who create comics. Both Alan Moore and Grant Morrison - two... more
"De entre los modernos fenómenos culturales que abordan los clásicos desde el punto de vista de la recepción –esto es, la readaptación que se hace de los modelos de la Antigüedad para adecuarlos a un momento y lugar determinados−, el... more
Overlooking its famously nonlinear structure, incorporation of multiple genres and unremitting examination of comics culture, print media and television, Alan Moore’s Watchmen is superficially conducive to Hollywood with regards to... more
Alan Moore has distanced himself in an interview from the use of women characters in comics ‘as an adornment’ or ‘just pretty girls for the artist to draw.’ However, the presentation of sexuality in an egalitarian manner is a task no... more
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen employs the ethos of romance as a mode so as to bring to the fore political issues of our contemporary world. This graphic novel may be said to offer an outstanding example of “political trauma”,... more